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Release Digest: GNOME, August 29, 2004

Loudmouth 0.17

Loudmouth 0.17 released

Imendio is happy to announce a new version of Loudmouth. This
release adds support to connect to a different server than the host
part of the JID. Also added API to have Loudmouth send keep-alive
packages at regular intervals.

What is Loudmouth
Loudmouth is a small C library for writing Jabber clients written
using GLib. It's designed to be extensible while maintaining ease
of use.

News in 0.17

Compile fixes (Sjoerd Simons)

Depends on GLib 2.4

Fixed memory leak

Added support to work tunnel, using another JID than the
connect server.

Gossip 0.7.7

Imendio is very happy to announce version 0.7.7 of our instant
messaging client Gossip!

Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an
easy-to-use interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a
friendly way to keep in touch with their friends.

This release features a nice addition in that you see which
contacts has been updated in the contact list. Often you find
yourself noticing that something changed but when you look you
can't find what actually changed. Martyn was quick to solve this
and now the background changes on a contact for 7 seconds after an
update.

Geert-Jan did some work to make the group chat behave more like
a normal chat. And Mikael Hallendal added support for keep-alive
packages being sent and HTTP proxy being used if the user has setup
a desktop global HTTP proxy. You can also specify a different host
to connect to instead of just being able to specify your JID.

Full list of fixes in 0.7.7:

Make the groupchat input area the same as in chats
(Geert-Jan)

Improved URL recognizer (Johan Hammar)

Fixed name bug when chatting with people not in your contact
list (Micke)